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Insurance and Redistribution with Simple Tax Instruments
Sachs, Dominik; Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
We study optimal nonlinear taxation of labor income and linear taxation of capital income in a life-cycle framework … environments. Capital taxation is desirable and yields sizable welfare gains, especially if labor income taxes are set below their … dependence to age independence and from nonlinear to linear income taxation. For optimal history- independent taxes, we provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301695
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Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium
Sachs, Dominik; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2016
is more pronounced than in partial equilibrium. The joint analysis of tax incidence and optimal taxation reveals that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555531
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Nonlinear tax incidence and optimal taxation in general equilibrium
Sachs, Dominik; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2016
is more pronounced than in partial equilibrium. The joint analysis of tax incidence and optimal taxation reveals that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540765
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Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium
Sachs, Dominik - 2016
is more pronounced than in partial equilibrium. The joint analysis of tax incidence and optimal taxation reveals that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979663
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Education Policies and Taxation without Commitment
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014
We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441852
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Education policies and taxation without commitment
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014 - This version: May 27, 2014
We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490537
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Education Policies and Taxation without Commitment
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2014
We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833237
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Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047233
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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551008
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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2020
Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this general-equilibrium effect in the workhorse labor market model with heterogeneous workers and intensive and extensive labor supply margins. We derive a closed-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314891